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July 2005—Dershowitz attempts to move the University of California Press to careful consideration of its publication of Finkelstein’s book “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History,” in which the author continues his attack on the academic work of Dershowitz, including a charge that Dershowitz did not actually write—and may not even have read—one of his own books, “The Case for Israel...
...University of California Press removed the suggestion that Dershowitz did not read his book from the text prior to publication...
...2005—Finkelstein tells an audience of Harvard Law School students that Dershowitz’s book “The Case for Israel” represents a work of plagiarism, and adds a new charge—that Dershowitz has recently flown to Israel to advise the Israeli government on how to suppress the free speech of the nation’s pilots. Dershowitz denies the charge...
September 2006—Dershowitz sends a list of Finkelstein’s alleged academic transgressions to the DePaul political science department upon the request of former department chair Patrick Callahan...
...2007—In comments published in the Wall Street Journal under the title “Finkelstein’s Bigotry,” Dershowitz alleges that Finkelstein has “encouraged radical goons to email threatening messages.” He then quotes from a letter of award-winning biologist Robert Trivers, in which his views of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict are criticized, and he is compared to a “Nazi-like apologist...